Bitler v. A.O. Smith Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing “the wide latitude a district court has in exercising its discretion to admit or exclude expert testimony”
• recognizing “the wide latitude a district court has in exercising its discretion to admit or exclude expert testimony”
• noting that testing is not required to admit expert opinions based on an existing body of science
• noting that the district court may choose “the manner in which [it] exercises its Daubert ‘gatekeeping’ role”
• finding “personal experience, training, method of observation, and deductive reasoning sufficiently reliable to constitute ‘scientifically valid’ methodology”
• “a trial court’s focus generally should not be upon the precise conclusions reached by the expert, but on the methodology employed in reaching those conclusions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

45 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Brown v. Crown Equipment Corp.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-10-27· cited 186×
• 1-800 Contacts, Inc. v. Lens.Com, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2013-07-16· cited 156×
• Bitler v. A.O. Smith Corp.
  Tenth Circuit· 2005-02-09· cited 136×
• Parr, J. v. Ford Motor Company
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-22· cited 136×
• Cook v. Rockwell International Corp.
  D. Colorado· 2008-12-07· cited 124×
• Etherton v. Owners Insurance Company
  Tenth Circuit· 2016-07-19· cited 122×
• Kokins v. Teleflex, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2010-10-14· cited 87×
• Nelson v. Enid Medical Associates, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 2016-06-14· cited 56×
• Blumer v. Ford Motor Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-05-06· cited 55×
• Watson Ex Rel. Lewis v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 2007-05-04· cited 48×
• Roe v. FCA US
  Tenth Circuit· 2022-08-02· cited 47×
• Neiberger v. FED EX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM, INC.
  Tenth Circuit· 2009-05-27· cited 43×
• Frederick v. Swift Transportation Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 2010-08-10· cited 42×
• Adamscheck v. American Family Mutual Insurance
  Tenth Circuit· 2016-03-29· cited 32×
• Smart v. BNSF Railway Co.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2016-03-04· cited 31×
• Vail Associates, Inc. v. Vend-Tel-Co., Ltd.
  Tenth Circuit· 2008-02-07· cited 27×
• United States v. McCluskey
  D. New Mexico· 2013-06-20· cited 21×
• In Re Williams Securities Litigation
  N.D. Oklahoma· 2007-07-06· cited 20×
• PS Ex Rel. Nelson v. the Farm, Inc.
  D. Kansas· 2009-09-08· cited 17×
• Belisle v. BNSF Railway Co.
  D. Kansas· 2010-03-09· cited 14×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael
  Supreme Court· 1999-03-23· cited 8,651×
• General Electric Co. v. Joiner
  Supreme Court· 1997-12-15· cited 4,535×
• Westberry v. Gislaved Gummi AB
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-05-20· cited 585×
• Raymond Rosen v. Ciba-Geigy Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-03-11· cited 231×
• Mitchell v. Gencorp Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-01-07· cited 216×
• Medlock v. Ortho Biotech, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-01-05· cited 199×
• Clausen v. M/V New Carissa
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-08-12· cited 190×
• Zuchowicz v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1998-03-20· cited 150×
• Smith v. Ingersoll-Rand, Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-06-07· cited 139×
• Gardetto v. Mason
  Tenth Circuit· 1996-11-13· cited 127×
• Goebel v. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
  Tenth Circuit· 2003-10-09· cited 126×
• Stephen Brent WHEELER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JOHN DEERE COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-Appellant
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-12-02· cited 107×
• Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado v. Sharp
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-07-27· cited 105×
• Truck Insurance Exchange v. Magnetek, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2004-02-25· cited 101×
• United States v. Velarde
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-06-02· cited 91×
• Black v. M & W Gear Company
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-11-07· cited 73×
• Robert E. ORTH and Connie A. Orth, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. EMERSON ELECTRIC COMPANY, WHITE-RODGERS DIVISION, Defendant-Appellant
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-11-24· cited 54×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1987-02-19· cited 52×
• Bobby M. Ponder v. Warren Tool Corporation and Patch Rubber Company
  Tenth Circuit· 1987-12-10· cited 47×